Bristol Rovers vs Shrews Match Thread:Taming Of The Shrews

Well we’ve got Daley, Reilly and Abraham so there are options for two up front.

I’ve defended Ben from the start and I am now rapidly running out of patience. Today was simply awful. What worried me the most was the lack of urgency from our players and why oh why are we still playing JCH up top on his own when it’s NOT working !

Out of interest what was wrong with his post match today ? Personally I thought he was honest enough to acknowledge that the performance was dreadful and didn't duck the fact that ultimately it was his responsibility. To me he understands he's under huge pressure now and for all the talk of long term projects he needs results in the short term.

Good news end of October

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Said it weeks ago on here.
Garner is a coach and will never be a Manager.
The longer this goes on will prove I was right.
Wael and Starmes have a lot to answer for with this appointment and as we already know from other matters, their silence speaks a thousand words.
Garner should have been sacked immediately after the game today irrespective of what contract he is on and our owner and Mr Starmes should have the balls to front up and admit they got it wrong!

Yeah I’ve mentioned 4-4-2 a couple of times today too.
Probably because over the years when we’ve had bad times / runs of form our managers have often gone back to the basics of 442.
Two up front , a big man and a smaller quicker striker that we’ve got.
2 central midfielders one ball winner , one more attacking.
2 wide players , the two lads from today would do.
A back four.
Keep it simple .
It would be better than it has been lately that I am 99% sure of.

He won't be the first and definately not the last coach to fail to make the step up to Manager.

Obviously some coaches go on to be very good managers and some good managers wouldn’t and some would be good coaches.
As it turns out our board have given Garner his first managerial role and it has so far turned out to be a complete and utter disaster.
I think it’s probably time for our board to front up , take it on the chin admit that they got this one wrong and sack Garner.
They got GC right he was brilliant but left and they got this one wrong.
No shame in that.

The shame comes from the silence from our board and when they do speak the complete and utter disregard that they’ve got for the supporters.
As Rovers supporters we don’t demand Premier league football in fact I think most of us don’t even demand championship football what we do demand is that whoever is running the club doesn’t blatantly take the water out of us with stupid interviews filled with derogatory bullshit.

Step up Wael in front of us tell us what your plans are , tell us that you’ve made mistakes and where they’ve been and if the clubs up for sale then tell us that too.
Do that and even though it won’t change your mistakes the supporters of this club will have more patience, perhaps renew their season tickets etc.

People aren’t going to come back next season based on the football Garners churning out or on the pathetic leadership the board are churning out.

Crowds at the beginning of next season will be around the 5-6 thousand mark at this rate which is what we had in the conference for f**ks sake.